After following the Youtube video from TechnoDadLife (
I realize the video is 2 years old, but the comments do not mention any such issues - or, at least I did not find any
My OMV version - latest 6.?? (It'd sure be nice to have the exact version shown in the 'About' page)
My OS drive is a SSD, the backup drive is a 500GB laptop drive (a previously used drive)
After running the backup command, when trying to boot from the newly backed up drive, I ran into issues where the boot messages from the PC terminal advised me that I would have to manually run fsck?? on /dev/sda1, which I did.
It advised me that somethings needed fixing, I agree to a couple of the requests, but gave up eventually and tried to boot from the disk anyhow - needless to say without luck, on the first try.
After checking the drive with GSmartControl disk checker and getting a clean bill of health, I copied the OS once more and tried to boot again.
When I tried to boot from the new 'backup', I got the same issues as before, tried to clean a couple of the remedies offered by fschk and eventually gave up.
Just now, as I tried to reproduce the issues and error messages for this question, lo and behold, the PC booted properly, without any hiccups and is now running OMV as far as I can tell.
Now, my original questions are slightly modified, but still much the same:
What is going on?
Is the proposed way the only and best way?
What, if any thing can I do to make sure this issue does not come back, i.e. do I really have a usable back up drive?
and loads more questions, related to all of this